The river Syr-Darya is one of the major water arteries not only for Kazakhstan, but also for the contiguous states. Now the reservoir, as well as other water pools, is exposed to strong anthropogenous influence through pollution by household and industrial wastes, degradation of the coast due to felling of trees, etc. One of the reasons of such attitude is ignorance of consequences of such actions by local communities.

The project aims at demonstration of opportunities and training of the local population to preliminary clearing of the drainage waters dumped into Syr-dArya river.

The activities will include creation of demonstration site for clearing drains, planting of poplar seedlings on the cleared waters, training of local population to technologies of clearing.